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Monthly Archives: March 2013

A set of social development goals agreed by world leaders at the Millennium Summit placed poverty reduction at the heart of the international development agenda. Ongoing crises, and the social… Read more »

Hundreds of thousands of low-income people will benefit from expanded access to financial services as a result of new commitments to the Business Call to Action (BCtA), an anti-poverty initiative… Read more »

In July 2012, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the 27 members of a High-level Panel to advise on the global development framework beyond 2015, the target date for the Millennium Development… Read more »

The global partnership for development, as crystallized in Millennium Development Goal 8, has played a crucial role in galvanizing international support for development. Given the global challenges at hand, there… Read more »

Small-scale producers, local production and consumption circuits and recovering traditional crops have a major part to play in reducing hunger, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told professors and students… Read more »

The United Nations DESA-DSPD Focal Point on Cooperatives is happy to roll out the Global Map of Youth Cooperatives and Cooperatives working for/with Youth this March. The Focal Point seeks… Read more »

The Young Innovators Competition seeks to foster innovative ideas amongst the next generation of social entrepreneurs working to change the world through technology. It is open to any young person… Read more »

With only minutes left on the clock, 20 members of the High Level Youth Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Committee managed to submit their official Declaration outlining their… Read more »

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“Information technology can allow people to help set priorities...Information technology can drive progress – but only when there is an open and free environment that encourages civic engagement and constructive criticism.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarks at the opening of the Government Summit, Dubai, 9 February 2015. Read more..